Hattons punch resistance is NOT gone!!

Not everyone is George Chuvalo :good

 

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I must have said it a million time on this forum, but Eamonn Magee was a really good fighter and a 23 year old Hatton getting knocked down by him in the first is nothing to be ashamed of. Even back then Hatton was being reckless with his early onslaughts. The first round he got knocked down but not hurt, in the second he got hurt but stayed on his feet, and after that he started to box a little more.

I also rate the Magee win as one of Hatton's best performances. It's one of the few fights where Hatton actually out-boxed his opponent, rather than trying to outmuscle them. He boxed wonderfully that night, moving in and out of range superbly, using the jab, and taking away the left-hand of the southpaw Magee. Magee was a brilliant counter-puncher, and he caught Hatton with some great counter shots early on, but Hatton back then had a) a chin and b) massively underrated boxing ability, and that got him through it.

 

Yeah, and Magee would still be a respected fighter today had he not been shot :good

Hatton had a very good chin, hasn't any more.

Well, all that proves is that he isn't a JCC/Chuvalo-type beast, but a very competent brawler on his day.

Unfortunately, his day has passed

 

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I think Magee might be the biggest waste of talent in the last 15 years of British boxing, I mean the guy was miles better than Junior Witter, and if Junior could win a world title that god knows what Magee could've achieved. He had superb counter-punching skills, one of the best I've seen, and a chin made of ****ing stone. He was one of those fighters who would wait patiently on the backfoot for, let his opponent get confident and reckless, and then BAM just get them with a killer shot that changes everything. He only needed one or two of those sort of punches to win a fight, he was a really quality-not-quantity guy and I respect that.

It's such a shame about him getting shot (was it a shooting, or was he stabbed?) I remember reading about it in the british boxing press at the time, and the doctors said he'd never walk again, yet 18 months later the guy was fighting Oktay Urkal for some version of the 140lbs world title. Heart doesn't even come close to describing it.

I also heard he lived a really rough lifestyle, apparently compared to Magee Ricky Hatton was tame. Magee smoked 20 a day and drunk heavily, something that really did damage his career coz his stamina was not world class. Perhaps thats why he was so economical with his counter-punching style, because he knew he couldn't match his opponents punch-for-punch he had to make sure his work was of the highest quality.

 

Magee has been stabbed in the throat, shot in the leg by the IRA and had his leg broken with a baseball bat. All in seperate incidents. He was a damn good fighter, but presumably something of a headbanger.

 

Here's a video of the Magee fight for those who still want to use it to suggest that Hatton NEVER had a chin.

Interesting to see how Hatton used to actually move his head before he attacked once upong a time.

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Means nothing. Frazier had a good chin. Foreman annihilated him. But Foreman couldnt drop or even dent Ali. Thats boxing. Ricky has an average chin nothing more or less. But when your hit consistently with precise punches you dont see coming you get knocked out. Simple.

 

He was only dropped by Magee in his WBU days. He was shook badly by Tackie and Phillips but not dropped. Against Magee he was dropped badly with a right hook when lunging in as usual.

 

atsch so a man with more water/fat at a simular weight to another is bigger.